Benched

[Churchill]

Is "Benched" like being "Pegged"?

[lilelvis2000]

If you are getting a response of ‘interesting CV’ then there is something seriously not right with your CV, have someone look at it and critique it!!

Everytime I get a response like that, I look at my CV and think what's wrong. I must have been through it 20 times. I dunno if its the two timeline breaks in it...or that half the CV is with Canadian companies - and maybe they never heard of Canada - or that I started in C++, then moved to ASP/SQL Server, then Oracle with some Access.

Anyway, permie is over and done for me. I'm over 40 anyway - not that I put that on my CV. I'm hunting for freelance work now. Perhaps one day I'll find something.

[oracleslave]

Everytime I get a response like that, I look at my CV and think what's wrong. I must have been through it 20 times. I dunno if its the two timeline breaks in it...or that half the CV is with Canadian companies - and maybe they never heard of Canada - or that I started in C++, then moved to ASP/SQL Server, then Oracle with some Access.

Anyway, permie is over and done for me. I'm over 40 anyway - not that I put that on my CV. I'm hunting for freelance work now. Perhaps one day I'll find something.

Sounds like you need to be more flexible on location.

[tay]

1/ get a sexy avatar and flirt in TPD with assorted sexually frustrated nerds who you just know are knocking one out as they type with their free hand

[PAH]

Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web.

Yep, you're stuffed.

Last time I saw Oracle it came on a pile of 50 or so floppy disks. Glad I wasn't the one lumbered with installing that lot!

[PAH]

Sounds like you need to be more flexible on location.

As a northerner that's usually the only way I get any contracts. I've tried holding out for stuff closer to home (despite the big difference in rates) but always give in to temptation and back down south I go.

[oracleslave]

As a northerner that's usually the only way I get any contracts. I've tried holding out for stuff closer to home (despite the big difference in rates) but always give in to temptation and back down south I go.

Sounds like an added bonus to me.

[bobsyouruncle]

As a northerner that's usually the only way I get any contracts. I've tried holding out for stuff closer to home (despite the big difference in rates) but always give in to temptation and back down south I go.

yep, me too, i live in the middle of nowhere, but would happily go north...unfortunately all the jobs are darn sawf

[milanbenes]

Elvis,

'Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web.',

what the feck have you been doing for the last ten years ?

Milan.

[PAH]

Elvis,

'Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web.',

what the flip have you been doing for the last ten years ?

Milan.

It's a well worn bench that one.

I know people who have dedicated their professional careers to Oracle, strange as it may seem. At least they don't have to keep re-training every 3 years to keep up with the latest tool-sets. For that reason maybe I should have stuck with COBOL. Skills for life.